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From CPA to CAA

Andrew Hughes Community Safety Directorate16 January 2008

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What is CAA?

• New joint assessment framework for local services from 2009

• Catalyst for further improvement in quality of life for citizens

• Source of independent information & assurance about local services

• Means of rationalising & targeting inspection, improvement support & intervention

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Key componentsFor areas

• prospects for area & quality of life • performance against national indicator set

For FRAs police authorities/forces, councils & NHS bodies• annual use of resources judgement

For FRAs and councils • annual direction of travel assessment

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• Focus on outcomes delivered by the council working alone or in partnership

• Includes community safety and cohesion, sustainable communities, health & well-being, children’s services

• Service-specific performance frameworks will fit with CAA and not duplicate

Scope of CAA

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Partnership delivery

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Joined up assessment

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Example

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• Outcome focused, area-based

• Forward-looking

• Greater attention to local priorities

• Joint assessment judgements

• Joint planning and targeting of inspection

• Far fewer rolling programmes of inspection

Key differences

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Promising communities

Healthier communities

Sustainable & prosperous

communities

Safer & stronger

communities

Local Area Agreement

CAA Joining it up

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Performance framework

PSA Priorities

DesignatedTargets

Local Priorities

The LAA

198 National Indicators

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Our proposals• Our proposal is to use a sector specific UoR and an

enhanced DoT assessments to inform the area risk assessment

• We envisage self-assessment and peer review will inform our work

• Our assessments will be used to identify sector specific support and inspection or cross sector thematic support and inspection.

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AnnualUse of Resources

assessment

AnnualDirection of Travel

assessment

Localimprovement

activity

Sector self support

Peer review/ challenge

Risk based inspection

Referral to S.o.S.

CLG prompted Improvement

Improvementnotices/

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Continually updated

AreaRisk

Assessment

All non county council FRAs will contribute to two or more area Risk Assessments

Performance info.• Value for money• Service delivery

Self/Peer assessment

• Self assessment• Operational assessment of service delivery

A model for fire assessment in CAA

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